Heading into the final third of the season, fans should know just who are the best performers in their team. However, we all have different opinions on what constitutes to an overall performance, some people merit determination and effort for the badge more so than the skills and flamboyancy of a player. Whatever your stance on what makes a great performance, the statics just don’t like, for every striker you expect a goal and for every defender you expect a clean sheet.
We look towards Sunderland’s best performing players so far based on statistics from whoscored.com.*
*Only players obtaining more than 15 league appearances during the 2015-16 season
